MCP Goes Stateless, and Developers Ask Whether That Just Makes it an API Again
InfoQ AI, ML and Data Engineering2mo4 min read
The MCP 2026-07-28 specification removes the initialize handshake and session header, and adds required method and tool-name headers so gateways can route agent traffic without parsing JSON. Reaction split between developers calling it a rediscovery of REST and those arguing the standard itself was always the point. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
